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FERRET

a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat

The meaning of the word ferret is a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat.

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